HotAir Daily Express 03/01/2017

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Pence: No one will “fall through the cracks” in ObamaCare repeal]( 3/1/2017 10:01:08 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Last night, Vice President Mike Pence fulfilled his office’s traditional role when the president speaks to Congress: remain in the background and lead the applause. This morning, Pence has taken the lead among the administration’s surrogates, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Illinois Governor prepares to hire “scabs” in response to state workers strike threat]( 3/1/2017 9:21:09 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments There’s a fun little food fight breaking out in the state of Illinois this week which is sure to have public worker union advocates spitting nails. There was a recent vote among members of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Affordable, Biblical Healthcare--Watch How Medi-Share Works]( Christian Care Medi-Share SPONSORED With Medi-Share, you never worry about tax penalties, enrollment periods, confusing systems, ethical issues, finding a doctor, rising deductibles. Medi-Share is affordable, Biblical healthcare that is available from coast-to-coast with over 250,000 members and accesses one of the largest networks of providers in the country. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: Dems haul Beshear out of retirement for Trump speech response]( 3/1/2017 8:41:52 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments No one else wanted to bite the bullet, eh? CBS reporter Mark Knoller called former Kentucky governor Steve Beshear an “elder statesman” of the Democratic Party, but there are two problems with that description. One is that Beshear has rarely [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump’s “Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement” office is popular but not needed]( 3/1/2017 8:01:30 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments The President’s speech last night contained much which drew cheers from plenty of people (except the usual list of suspects who would complain about him brushing his teeth) and set a generally positive tone. Buried among the frequently rousing and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump’s speech showed he is becoming a better politician]( 2/28/2017 11:01:33 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Trump spent a lot of time during the campaign saying he was a businessman, not a politician. He ran as a blunt outsider, not a slick insider. Tonight he showed the old dog is still learning some new tricks. Trump gave one of his best speeches ever and [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Live at 9 p.m. ET: Trump’s first (sort of) State of the Union]( 2/28/2017 8:31:04 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Yes, I know, it’s not technically a State of the Union but that’s the role this speech fills after a new president is sworn in, so let’s not be sticklers. Besides, seeing him there at the podium in the House chamber with Mike Pence over [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bush on America under Trump: “I don’t like the racism and I don’t like the name-calling”]( 2/28/2017 8:01:57 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Poor form here by People mag in not letting us hear the specific question that was put to Bush. Was Trump’s name invoked or was this a broader query about, say, the direction of the country “over the last few years” or whatever? Either [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [California judge tosses SDSU kangaroo court decision in sexual assault case]( 2/28/2017 7:31:03 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Yet another of those frustrating and completely unconstitutional incidents of sexual assault cases being handled by college tribunals comes to us this week courtesy of Ashe Schow at Watchdog. This one takes place at San Diego State University, where a [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [No immediate ruling on lawsuit against Dakota Access Pipeline]( 2/28/2017 7:01:13 PM John Sexton 0 Comments There was a 90 minute hearing today in the case brought by native tribes who seek to prevent the flow of oil through the soon-to-be-completed Dakota Access Pipeline. No ruling was issued but the Associated Press reports there was some indication the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Belated “Walking Dead” grumble thread: Revenge of the nerd]( 2/28/2017 6:31:51 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments We get one, maybe two episodes per season of this show that involve real character development. Go figure that the first episode I’ve missed in years would be one of them. It’s always a crapshoot when TWD gives a minor character a close-up. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Politico envisions an Andrew Cuomo 2020 presidential bid]( 2/28/2017 6:01:21 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments This definitely must be the season for political analysts to begin killing some time and imagining scenarios for a presidential election which is still nearly 4 years away. Speculating is always a fun game, but when you begin running out of the most [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [State of the Oval: Morning Consult/Politico poll puts Trump approval at 50%]( 2/28/2017 5:31:31 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments While the media continues its near-hysterical coverage of the Trump administration, voters outside Washington DC and New York City have grown more sanguine with the White House. A new poll from Morning Consult and Politico puts Donald Trump’s job [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Nearly 100 bureaucrats caught viewing ‘copious’ porn at work]( 2/28/2017 5:01:10 PM John Sexton 0 Comments NBC 4 in Washington, D.C. decided to investigate bureaucrats who spend their time on the clock looking at pornography. The news station sent FOIA requests to 12 federal agencies, among them the departments of Justice, Transportation, Labor, Commerce, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Report: Trump wants an immigration bill involving legal status for illegals, might call for compromise in tonight’s speech]( 2/28/2017 4:31:18 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments There are many funny things about this — the idea of President Trump, of all people, signing amnesty into law once reduced Rush Limbaugh to fits of laughter — but the funniest might be Wolf Blitzer in the clip below citing a “senior [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Liberals worry that digital assistants are being sexually harassed]( 2/28/2017 4:01:22 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments By this point I’ve given up on trying to guess when social justice warriors are serious or perhaps engaging in self-deprecating humor. In the case of the article I ran across today from Leah Fessler at Quartz, I won’t even bother making the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Tuesday TEMS: Andrew Malcolm, Guy Benson]( 2/28/2017 3:31:28 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! The show will be streamed on Hot Air’s Facebook page and embedded here and on the show page for those who are not on Facebook. (If it’s muted, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Maxine Waters will boycott Trump’s speech as Nancy Pelosi vows Democrats won’t be ‘out-classed’]( 2/28/2017 3:01:33 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Rep. Maxine Waters will skip Trump’s address to Congress tonight and reportedly encouraged others not to attend as well. .@MaxineWaters is skipping Trump's speech to Congress. Told caucus this morning that anyone who can't sit still [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Video: The freaky triple deaky Boston Dynamics robot]( 2/28/2017 2:31:41 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments To cleanse the palate, watch this and guesstimate how many years away we are, realistically, from producing an ED-209. Twenty, maybe? Relatedly, how many modifications would need to be made to this thing, “Handle,” to create a formidable [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A civilian mission to the moon? Next year?]( 2/28/2017 2:01:36 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Some new information coming from SpaceX is generating a lot of excitement in conservative circles this week. The company sent out an announcement saying that they were ready to move beyond commercial missions of an unmanned nature shipping supplies to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump on the Yemen raid: “This was a mission that was started before I got here”]( 2/28/2017 1:31:51 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Via RCP, critics are laying into him for how much casual buck-passing language there is here about the raid: [T]his was a mission that was started before I got here. This was something that was, you know, just — they wanted to do. And they came to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Paul Ryan: ‘I believe’ Trump supports entitlement reform for future generations]( 2/28/2017 1:01:10 PM John Sexton 0 Comments In an interview with NBC’s Today show Tuesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan said he believes President Trump is on board with entitlement reform for future generations. “You’ve been talking about this for a very long time,” host Matt [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest outrageous outrage: Couchgate]( 2/28/2017 12:31:09 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Painful admission: Trump voters tried to tell us that electing him President would solve so many problems so quickly, we’d end up having nothing more substantial to debate than furniture in the Oval Office. Turns out they were right after all! [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Yes, some non-citizens were found to be voting in Ohio]( 2/28/2017 12:01:43 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments Wouldn’t you want to know? That’s the question I’ve been asking since well before the last election took place. The President has made the claim that millions of non-citizens, either of the legal or illegal varieties, cast ballots in [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [McMaster to Trump: Maybe don’t use the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism” tonight]( 2/28/2017 11:21:38 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments All we have is Politico’s word that this happened, but both that paper and the NYT are reporting that McMaster urged the National Security Council to drop the term “radical Islamic terrorism” from its vocabulary. If he felt strongly [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: My opponents play the race card when they’re losing]( 2/28/2017 10:41:20 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Welcome to the conservative world, Donald Trump. In an exclusive White House interview with Fox & Friends, the new president makes a very old complaint about Democratic opposition, which is that they make a habit of hurling charges of racism at [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] [Uh oh: Oprah says she’s rethinking whether she could be president]( [“One of the most extraordinary moments you have ever seen in American politics, period”]( [Officials: New Trump order drops Iraq from travel ban list]( [Trump’s speech to Congress killed conservatism but, at least for now, saved his presidency]( [Sources: New travel ban will exempt existing visa holders]( [Seven in 10 speech-watchers say Trump boosted optimism]( [Trump delays new travel ban after well-reviewed speech]( [Research: Your name might shape your face]( [If you’re not driving, then you shouldn’t be liable for accidents in self-driving cars]( [An unlikely ally for President Trump: Liberal actress Jennifer Garner]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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